Good day all fellow and prospective career creators. Recently I have started linking custom rewards into my careers, and some people have been asking how it is done. Normally I link them to Psion's tutorial, but that isn't very user friendly- it took me weeks to work out how it was done. So, I decided to create a user friendly picture tutorial to help anyone interested in branching out with their careers.

Hacked objects and meshes can be used as career rewards. If you do not use your own objects, ALWAYS seek a creator‚Äôs permission to use their object. All the meshers I've contacted have been very polite and generous- treat others as you wish to be treated.

Before you begin, note down the full guids of both the object you plan on making a reward object, and your career. This will make your job much easier later on.

Making an ordinary object a reward object

Step 1

Open up your object and go to object data. Click on the file that presents itself to you.

Check to see if this has worked. Save, click on another file and go back to object data- this allows SimPE to register that something in Object Data has been changed.

Done? Go to uncompressed data, and click on the box to the right of box 0x00000090- check the values indicated in the picture are correct. If so, the object has now been flagged as a reward object, but is not yet linked to a career. If not, you'll need to start again.

Linking a career to a reward object

Step 1

Another Byte Editor job...

1. Set mode to Hexadecimal
2. In the Offset box, type in 0xA8
3. Click Go
4. In the DWord box type in your career's guid.
5. Click Go
6. Commit and close

Step 2

Time to check and see if it's worked... Again, save, click on another file and go back to object data before pressing on...

Go to uncompressed data, type in 0xAB, then click Go To. Check the picture for confirmation.

If your guid isn't showing up, try again from the beginning. if it works, congratulations The next step is to link the reward to the career.

Linking a reward object to a career

Step 1

Open up your career, go to Behavior Function, then go to CT- Career Reward

Step 2

Click on the third file down

Step 3

This is the most difficult step in the procedure, so pay attention!

The boxes you are interested in are highlighted- red, blue, green and orange. Imagine your guid is 0x000B9A59

00- this would go in the red box
0B- this would go in the blue box
9A- this would go in the green box
59- this would go in the orange box.

If you have any other guid, follow this pattern of inputting information.

and there we are- a linked reward object and career I hope you find this useful, and if you have any problems, post them up here

Devilfish, you will need the object you've used in your downloads folder for it to appear. The normal reward objects are somehow ingrained into the game (doubtlessly someone vastly more intelligent user than I would know how) so they are not needed in the downloads folder

Ah, I see. I'm just worried about the rewards showing up in buy mode, that'd be lame.

Another thing: I made a career using SimPE 0.50 and bidou's career editor, with the science career as a base, then followed this tutorial. The custom object shows up in the list of career rewards in-game, but my sim always gets the Biotech Station and I can't change that in the career editor. I tried selecting 'Unknown' as a career reward, but it always jumps back to the Biotech Station. Any ideas?

Devilfish- If you've created a new object, then it won't appear as a normal build mode object, so long as it's been flagged correctly.

The reverting of career reward objects is something to live with. Since I'm the only person who uses reward objects, little research is being done, but no matter. Simply link the reward object in after completing the descriptions, chance cards, etc. in teh editor

Mariam- You can create new objects with SimPE version .52, but you cannot link in new objects with the new version. You will require an older version to do this.

Could someone tell me how to install simPE? ive jsut got 0.38 and i extracted it and all i see is a load of icons, and one does say simPE, and i clicked on that but the 'application failed to initiate'...anyone help?

Th trial version is free and you can download one here. After the trial runs out, you can still keep using it, there will just be a window that pops up every time you open a rar archive and you need to click "agree" or something similar, and it'll still work.